Anonymous Hacktivists Attack Malaysian Government Site

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Anonymous' planned cyberattack against a government website in
Malaysia appears to have come earlier than expected.

Anonymous announced earlier this week that it was planning to
attack www.malaysia.gov.my, a website
that includes government information and links to "various
ministries and state-run services," the Sacramento Bee
reported. The website, the Sacramento Bee said, holds no
confidential or sensitive data.

Around 12:00 p.m. EDT today (June 15), www.malaysia.gov.my became
unresponsive, most likely due to a due to a denial-of-service
attack.

This has been an explosive week for Anonymous and its
international hacktivist members.

On Monday (June 13),
Turkish police arrested 32 people suspected of taking part in
Anonymous-led attacks on government websites. And last Friday
(June 10), cops in Spain busted three Anonymous members believed
to be behind attacks against Spain's Central Electoral Board,
Sony's PlayStation Store website and government sites in Egypt,
Chile, Algeria and Iran.

And on Saturday (June 11), Anonymous announced that it would
launch coordinated cyberattacks against the U.S. Federal Reserve.